Ernest Hemingway, on writing:

 

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

- Ernest Hemingway.

Recommended reading - The Lady in Cement

 

The Lady in Cement

by Marvin H. Albert.
 
Also published under the pseudonym Anthony Rome.

ASIN: B000MOWZWA
Published by Pocket Books Inc.
1st edition.
Published 1961.
Paperback.
 
Description:

The private-eye business was slow, so Anthony Rome when skin-diving. But instead of treasure he found a woman's naked body – her feet embedded in a block of cement! She had last been seen alive at a ritzy party given by wealthy heiress Gretchen Forrest. Also at the party had been bigtime tough Al Mungo, who claimed he'd quit the rackets. Anthony Rome started asking questions. And one morning he woke up swollen, bruised and beaten. He hadn't learned much – except that Mungo hadn't lost his heavy touch, and that somewhere along the line, Mungo had picked up a very special interest in lovely Gretchen Forrest!

Recommended reading - The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

 

The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

by John Pearson.
 
Filmed as Legend (2015), directed and written by Brian Helgeland.
 
Paperback.
Published by William Collins.
First published 1972.

ISBN 13: 9780008150273
ISBN 10: 0008150273
ASIN: 0008150273
 
Description:
 
The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, starring Tom Hardy.
 

Reggie and Ronnie Kray ruled London’s gangland during the 60s with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks even now. Building an empire of organized crime that has never been matched, the brothers swindled, extorted and terrorized – while enjoying a glittering celebrity status at the heart of the swinging 60s scene, until their downfall and imprisonment for life.

 

Born on this day – Tony Gaudio:

Tony Gaudio

Cinematographer

Director

November 20, 1883 – August 10, 1951

Credits:

The Red Pony (1949); Love from a Stranger (1947); That's My Man (1947); Swell Guy (1946); I've Always Loved You (1946); The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946); A Song to Remember (1945); I'll Be Seeing You (1944); Experiment Perilous (1944); Days of Glory (1944); Corvette K-225 (1943); Background to Danger (1943); The Constant Nymph (1943); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); You Can't Escape Forever (1942); Wings for the Eagle (1942); Larceny, Inc (1942); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941); Navy Blues (1941); Affectionately Yours (1941); The Great Lie (1941); High Sierra (1940); The Letter (1940); Knute Rockne All American (1940); Brother Orchid (1940); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); The Fighting 69th (1940); We Are Not Alone (1939); The Old Maid (1939); Juarez (1939); The Dawn Patrol (1938); The Sisters (1938); Garden of the Moon (1938); The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938); Torchy Blane in Panama (1938); San Quentin (1937); It's Love I'm After (1937); The Life of Emile Zola (1937); Another Dawn (1937); Kid Galahad (1937); The King and the Chorus Girl (1937); God's Country and the Woman (1937); The White Angel (1936); Anthony Adverse (1936); The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936); Dr. Socrates (1935); The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935); Little Big Shot (1935); Front Page Woman (1935); Oil for the Lamps of China (1935); Go Into Your Dance (1935); The White Cockatoo (1935); Bordertown (1935); Happiness Ahead (1934); The Dragon Murder Case (1934); The Man with Two Faces (1934); Fog Over Frisco (1934); Upperworld (1934); Mandalay (1934); Lady Killer (1933); The World Changes (1933); Ladies Must Love (1933); Voltaire (1933); The Narrow Corner (1933); The Silk Express (1933); Private Detective 62 (1933); Ex-Lady (1933); Blondie Johnson (1933); The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932); Tiger Shark (1932); Sky Devils (1932); The Front Page (1931); Little Caesar (1931); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); The Lady Who Dared (1930); Hell's Angels (1930); Tiger Rose (1929); General Crack (1929); She Goes to War (1929); On with the Show! (1929); The Racket (1928); The Gaucho (1927); Two Arabian Knights (1927); The Notorious Lady (1927); An Affair of the Follies (1927); The Blonde Saint (1926); Upstage (1926); The Temptress (1926); The Gay Deceiver (1926); Graustark (1925); Déclassé (1925); The Lady (1925); Sealed Lips (1925); The Price of Success (1925); Husbands and Lovers (1924); The Only Woman (1924); Secrets (1924); The Song of Love (1923); Ashes of Vengeance (1923); Within the Law (1923); Adam and Eva (1923); The Voice from the Minaret (1923); East Is West (1922); The Woman He Loved (1922); The Eternal Flame (1922); Shattered Idols (1922); The Sin of Martha Queed (1921); Pilgrims of the Night (1921); The Ten Dollar Raise (1921); The Other Woman (1921); The Forbidden Thing (1920); Kismet (1920); Whispering Devils (1920); An Adventuress (1920); The Inferior Sex (1920); The Fighting Shepherdess (1920); In Old Kentucky (1919); In Wrong (1919); The Red Lantern (1919); The Unpardonable Sin (1919); A Man of Honor (1919); Pals First (1918); Lend Me Your Name (1918); The Landloper (1918); Broadway Bill (1918); The Avenging Trail (1917); The Square Deceiver (1917); Paradise Garden (1917); Under Handicap (1917); The Hidden Spring (1917); The Haunted Pajamas (1917); The Hidden Children (1917); The Promise (1917); Pidgin Island (1916); Big Tremaine (1916); Mister 44 (1916); The River of Romance (1916); The Masked Rider (1916); The Woman in Black (1914); Classmates (1914); The Better Way (1911); The Fisher-Maid (1911); The Secret of the Palm (1911); The Message in the Bottle (1911); Tracked (1911); A Manly Man (1911); Artful Kate (1911); Pictureland (1911); The Mirror (1911); Their First Misunderstanding (1911); Little Nell's Tobacco (1910); Princess Nicotine; or, the Smoke Fairy (1909); Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1903).

Born on this day – Edwin Hubble:

Edwin Hubble

Astronomer

November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953

Born on this day – Allen Rivkin:

Allen Rivkin

Writer

November 20, 1903 – February 17, 1990

Born on this day – Mozelle Alderson:

Mozelle Alderson

Blues singer

November 20, 1904 – February 15, 1994

Credits:

Songs:

Mobile Central Blues; Mozelle Blues; Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat; Room Rent Blues; Sobbin' The Blues; State Street Special; Tall Man Blues; Tight Whoopee.

Born on this day – Judy Canova:

Judy Canova

Comedienne

Actress

Singer

November 20, 1913 – August 5, 1983

Born on this day – Russell Rouse:

Russell Rouse

Writer

Director

Producer

November 20, 1913 – October 2, 1987

 

Born on this day – Evelyn Keyes:

Evelyn Keyes

Actress

November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008

Credits:

15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2009); 20 to 1 (2007); 99 River Street (1953); A Return to Salem's Lot (1987); A Thousand and One Nights (1945); A Tribute to Rudy Wissler (2007); All Star Revue (1950); Amazing Stories (1986); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985); Artist and Models (1937); Before I Hang (1940); Beyond the Sacramento (1940); Biography (2003); Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004); Climax! (1955); Dangerous Blondes (1943); Dangerous to Know (1938); Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2003); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1999); Enchantment (1948); Flight Lieutenant (1942); From a Bird's Eye View (1971); Glorious Technicolor (1998); Going Hollywood: The War Years (1988); Gone with the Wind (1939); Good Morning America (1983); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941); Hell's Half Acre (1954); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941); Iron Man (1951); It Happened in Paris (1952); ITV Playhouse (1968); John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988); Johnny O'Clock (1947); Ladies in Retirement (1941); Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (2001); Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (1987); Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema (1996); Lux Video Theatre (1951); Men with Wings (1938); Missing Links (1964); Mr. Soft Touch (1949); Mrs. Mike (1949); Murder, She Wrote (1985–1993); Nine Girls (1944); One Big Affair (1952); Our World (1987); Paris Honeymoon (1938); Renegades (1946); Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream (1991); Screen Snapshots: Hawaii in Hollywood (1948); Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood (1954); Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards (1948); Shoot First (1953); Slightly Honorable (1939); Smuggler's Island (1951); Sons of the Legion (1938); Strange Affair (1944); Sudden Money (1939); The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (1988); The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009); The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942); The Buccaneer (1938); The DeMille Dynasty (1998); The Desperadoes (1943); The Face Behind the Mask (1941); The Jolson Story (1946); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Lady in Question (1940); The Lady with the Torch (1999); The Love Boat (1983); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Mating of Millie (1948); The Mike Douglas Show (1977); The Prowler (1951); The Seven Year Itch (1955); The Thrill of Brazil (1946); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1977–1991); The Ugliest Girl in Town (1968); The Ultimate Film (2004); There's Something About a Soldier (1943); Top of the World (1955); Union Pacific (1939); Warner Bros. Celebration of Tradition, June 2, 1990 (1990); Wicked Stepmother (1989).

Born on this day – Phyllis Thaxter:

Phyllis Thaxter

Actress

November 20, 1919 – August 14, 2012

Born on this day – John Gardner:

John Gardner

Writer

November 20, 1926 – August 3, 2007

Credits:

Books:

The Liquidator (1964); Understrike (1965); Amber Nine (1966); Madrigal (1967); Hideaway (1968); Founder Member (1969); Traitor's Exit (1970); The Airline Pirates (1973); Air Apparent (1973); The Assassination File (1974); A Killer for a Song (1975); A Complete State of Death (1970); The Corner Men (1976); Bottled Spider (2002); Streets of Town (2003); Angels Dining at the Ritz (2004); Troubled Midnight (2005); No Human Enemy (2007); The Nostradamus Traitor (1979); The Garden of Weapons (1981); The Quiet Dogs (1988); Maestro (1993); Confessor (1995); The Return of Moriarty (1974); The Revenge of Moriarty (1975); Moriarty (2008); The Secret Generations (1985); The Secret Houses (1987); The Secret Families (1989); Colonel Sun (By: Kingsley Amis) (1968); License Renewed (1981); For Special Services (1982); Icebreaker (1983); Role of Honor (1984); Nobody Lives Forever (1986); No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987); Scorpius (1988); Licence to Kill (1989); Win, Lose or Die (1989); Brokenclaw (1990); The Man from Barbarossa (1991); Death Is Forever (1992); Never Send Flowers (1993); SeaFire (1994); GoldenEye (1995); Cold Fall (1996); Zero Minus Ten (1997); Tomorrow Never Dies (1997); The Facts of Death (1998); The World is Not Enough (1999); High Time to Kill (1999); Doubleshot (2000); Never Dream of Dying (2001); The Man With the Red Tattoo (2002); Die Another Day (2002); Devil May Care (2008); Carte Blanche (2011); Solo (2013); Trigger Mortis (2015); Forever and a Day (2018); With a Mind to Kill (2022); The Censor (1972); Every Night's a Bullfight (1973); The Director (1973); To Run a Little Faster (1976); The Werewolf Trace (1977); The Dancing Dodo (1979); Golgotha (1980); The Last Trump (1980); Blood of the Fathers (1992); Day of Absolution (2001); On Becoming a Novelist (1983); On Writers and Writing (1994); The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1999).

Movies and television:

Biography (2006); The Liquidator (1965); The Stone Killer (1973); Wogan (1988).

Born on this day – Helma Sanders-Brahms:

 

Helma Sanders-Brahms

Director

Writer

Producer

November 20, 1940 – May 27, 2014

On this day in movie history - Lady in Cement (1968)

 

Lady in Cement

directed by Gordon Douglas,

written by Marvin H. Albert and Jack Guss,

based on the novel by Marvin H. Albert,

was released in the United States on November 20, 1968.

Music by Hugo Montenegro.

 
Cast:

Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan, Pat Henry, Dan Blocker, Steve Peck, Virginia Wood, Richard Deacon, Frank Raiter, Peter Hock, Alex Stevens, Christine Todd, Mac Robbins, Tommy Uhlar, Rey Baumel, Pauly Dash, Andy Jarrell, Al Algiro, Robert 'Buzz' Henry, Lanita Kent, Joe E. Lewis, Charlene Mathies, Shirley Parker, B.S. Pully, Jilly Rizzo, Chris Robinson, Coz Serrapere, Dick Sterling, Bunny Yeager.

 

On this day in movie history - Bad Lieutenant (1992)

Bad Lieutenant

directed by Abel Ferrara,

written by Zoë Lund and Abel Ferrara,

was released in the United States on November 20, 1992.

Music by Joe Delia.

Cast:

Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Paul Calderón, Eddie Daniels, Bianca Hunter, Zoë Lund, Frankie Thorn, Fernando Véléz, Joseph Micheal Cruz, Paul Hipp, Frank Adonis, Anthony Ruggiero, Victoria Bastel.

On this day in movie history - RKO 281 (1999)

RKO 281

directed by Benjamin Ross,

written by John Logan,

based on the documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane by Richard Ben Cramer and Thomas Lennon,

was released in the United States on November 20, 1999.

Music by John Altman.

Cast:

Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Brenda Blethyn, Roy Scheider, Liam Cunningham, David Suchet, Fiona Shaw, Anastasia Hille, Roger Allam, Simeon Andrews, William Armstrong, Jay Benedict, Ron Berglas, Paul Birchard, Neil Conrich, Michael Cronin, Sarah Franzl, Briony Glassco, Louis Hammond, Aaron Keeling, Joseph Long, Gareth Marks, Olivier Pierre, Roger Rose, Rolf Saxon, Adrian Schiller, Kerry Shale, Cyril Shaps, Tusse Silberg, Toby Whithouse, Tim Woodward, Angus Wright, Melissa Hartzel, Zak Shukor, Bobby Valentino, Lucy Cohu, Anthony Maddalena, Tim Packham.

On this day in movie history - I Am the Blues (2015)

I Am the Blues

documentary directed and written by Daniel Cross,

was released at the IDFA Festival in the Netherlands on November 20, 2015.

 

Cast:

Jimmy Duck Holmes, L.C. Ulmer, Bobby Rush, Little Freddie King, Robert Bilbo Walker, R.L. Boyce, McKinney Williams, Barbara Lynn, Lil' Buck Sinegal, Lazy Lester, Henry Gray, Carol Fran, Bud Spires, Reverend John Wilkins.

On this day in movie history - Legend (2015)

Legend

directed and written by Brian Helgeland,

was released in the United States on November 20, 2015.

Based on the book The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins, by John Pearson.

Music by Carter Burwell.

Cast:

Tom Hardy, Paul Anderson, Christopher Eccleston, Joshua Hill, Emily Browning, Colin Morgan, Tara Fitzgerald, Nicholas Farrell, Adam Fogerty, Mel Raido, Millie Brady, Chris Mason, Stephen Thompson, Sam Spruell, Taron Egerton, Alex Ferns, Martin McCreadie, Shane Attwooll, Richard Riddell, Huggy Leaver, Sam Hoare, David Thewlis, Frankie Fitzgerald, Christopher Adamson, Chazz Palminteri, Alex Giannini, Duffy, Samantha Pearl, Mark Theodore, Lara Cazalet, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Tim Faraday, John Sessions, Kevin McNally, Tim Woodward, Nick Hendrix, Robert Ashby, Geoffrey Beevers, Jane Wood, Jon McKenna, John Sears, Stephen Lord, Lorraine Stanley, Ashley Byam, Clive Aitkins, Fraser Andrews, James Francis Andrews, Lasco Atkins, David Olawale Ayinde, Aneurin Barnard, Roy Beck, Francesca Bennett, Jimmy 'The Bee' Bennett, Paul Bettany, Paul Biddiss, Martin Bishop, Steven Blake, Nicholas Blatt, Andy Blithe, Ancuta Breaban, Steve Brunton, Jon Callaway, John Carr, Alan Chimes, Bern Collaço, Trevor Comber, Carmen Cowell, Chris Cowlin, Bob Cryer, Leigh Dent, Raphael Desprez, Christian Di Sciullo, Gary Douglas, John Duggan, Shola Ebofin, Begona F. Martin, Dino Fazzani, Holly Field, Ellie Fox, Rich Goble, Claire Greasley, Guna Gultniece, Charlotte Habib, Abigail Halley, Jack Hamson, Shane Hart, Michael Haydon, Robin Hooper, Kornelia Horvath, Philip Howard, Adam Hypki, Danny Jackson, Alex Jaep, Steven J. Jobes, Paul Kerry, Jefferson King, Evia Laizane, Wesley Lloyd, Nick Longland, Darren Luckin, Christopher Marsh, Sonia Mason, Martyn Mayger, Matthew David McCarthy, Jackson Milner, David Mott, Campbell Muirhead, Benjayx Murphy, Josh Myers, Philip Myklebust, Debbie J. Nash, Johnny Neal, Celina Nessa, Tyrone Nestor, Hugh O'Brien, Yves O'Hara, Tom Ogg, Jeremy Oliver, Tony Pankhurst, Julia Papp, Stephen Parker, Christophe Philipps, Scott Plumridge, Glenn Power, Matt Rentell, Claire Richardson, David G. Robinson, Katherine Rodden, Geoff Rolph, Jd Roth-round, Tiger Rudge, Tom Sandell, James Thomas Scott, Timothy Scott, Janette Sharpe, Teresa Shaughnessy, Ruth Shaw, Sam Shoubber, Tristan Teller, Tom Urie, Daniel Westwood, Chris Wilson.

On this day in music history - The Memory of Trees, by Enya (1995)

The Memory of Trees

by Enya,

was released on November 20, 1995.

On this day in music history - A Day Without Rain, by Enya (2000)

A Day Without Rain

by Enya,

was released on November 20, 2000.